start time is out mp4

[Richard Kearsley]

Hi
I've been able to test a few videos myself and can see it happening
Just to be clear, 99%+ seem to be fine and can seek right up to the end
But on very few, seeking is only possible up to X seconds (X could be at 
any point in the video)
To seek after X, the error always happens
However if I watch the video from start to end, it downloads the full 
thing and can be watched to the end (the file isn't truncated)

At this point I suppose it's either an error while creating the metadata 
at the encoder software, or some odd circumstance which nginx doesn't like
The question is, which?

Thanks


On 22/06/13 15:41, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 10:40:53AM +0100, Richard Kearsley wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I’m using the mp4 module quite heavily, and very occasionally (once
>> every minute or so on a busy website) there is an error written to
>> error.log and status 500 returned in the access log
>>
>> [error] 42078#0: *5510811 start time is out mp4 stts samples in ...
>> (mostly this error)
>> [error] 42072#0: *5524976 start time is out mp4 stsc chunks in ...
>> (sometimes this error)
>>
>> It happens on different videos and only when ?start is after a
>> certain time point (different for each video)
>>
>> Given that the mp4 module works remarkably well on the whole, where
>> should I look to find the cause of these rare errors? (and what do
>> they actually mean :))
> Messages suggest an attempt was made to seek to a time which isn't
> in media track metadata, thus seek isn't possible.  This usually
> happens when time in "start=" is just too big.
>